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Nonlinear systems possessing nonattracting chaotic sets, such as chaotic saddles, embedded in their state space may oscillate chaotically for a transient time before eventually transitioning into some stable attractor. We show that these…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-14 Everton S. Medeiros , Oleh Omel'chenko , Ulrike Feudel

Neural synchronization is central to cognition However, incomplete synchronization often produces chimera states where coherent and incoherent dynamics coexist. While previous studies have explored such patterns using networks of coupled…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-15 Thomas Zdyrski , Scott Pauls , Feng Fu

This study examines the complex interplay between inertia and time delay in regular rotor networks within the framework of the second-order Kuramoto model. By combining analytical and numerical methods, we demonstrate that intrinsic time…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-12-19 Esmaeil Mahdavi , Mina Zarei , Philipp Hövel , Farhad Shahbazi

We investigate the dynamics of large, globally-coupled systems of Kuramoto oscillators with heterogeneous interaction delays. For the case of exponentially distributed time delays we derive the full stability diagram that describes the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-07-04 Per Sebastian Skardal

Chimera states are complex spatio-temporal patterns that consist of coexisting domains of spatially coherent and incoherent dynamics. This counterintuitive phenomenon was first observed in systems of identical oscillators with symmetric…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-07-07 Iryna Omelchenko , Astero Provata , Johanne Hizanidis , Eckehard Schoell , Philipp Hoevel

We refer the appearance of three-dimensional (3D) multiheaded chimera states that display cascades of self-organized spatiotemporal patterns of coexisting coherence and incoherence. We demonstrate that number of the incoherent chimera's…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-12-20 Volodymyr Maistrenko , Oleksandr Sudakov , Oleksiy Osiv , Yuri Maistrenko

Arrays of identical oscillators can display a remarkable spatiotemporal pattern in which phase-locked oscillators coexist with drifting ones. Discovered two years ago, such "chimera states" are believed to be impossible for locally or…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-06-13 Daniel M. Abrams , Steven H. Strogatz

The Kuramoto model is a system of ordinary differential equations for describing synchronization phenomena defined as a coupled phase oscillators. In this paper, a bifurcation structure of the infinite dimensional Kuramoto model is…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Hayato Chiba

We study numerically synchronization phenomena of spatiotemporal structures, including chimera states, in a two layer network of nonlocally coupled nonlinear chaotic discrete-time systems. Each of the interacting ensembles represents a one…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-02-09 Andrei V. Bukh , Galina I. Strelkova , Vadim S. Anishchenko

Chimera states are complex spatio-temporal patterns that consist of coexisting domains of coherent and incoherent dynamics. We study chimera states in a network of non-locally coupled Stuart-Landau oscillators. We investigate the impact of…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-04-05 Peter Kalle , Jakub Sawicki , Anna Zakharova , Eckehard Schöll

The emergence of order in collective dynamics is a fascinating phenomenon that characterizes many natural systems consisting of coupled entities. Synchronization is such an example where individuals, usually represented by either linear or…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-01-26 Malbor Asllani , Bram A. Siebert , Alex Arenas , James P. Gleeson

We investigate "chimera" states in a ring of identical phase oscillators coupled in a time-delayed and spatially non-local fashion. We find novel "clustered chimera" states that have spatially distributed phase coherence separated by…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Gautam C. Sethia , Abhijit Sen , Fatihcan M. Atay

We demonstrate that chimera behavior can be observed in ensembles of phase oscillators with unidirectional coupling. For a small network consisting of only three identical oscillators (cyclic triple), tiny {\it chimera islands} arise in the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-27 Patrycja Jaros , Roman Levchenko , Tomasz Kapitaniak , Yuri Maistrenko

Chimera states are spatiotemporal patterns in which coherence and incoherence coexist. We observe the coexistence of synchronous (coherent) and desynchronous (incoherent) domains in a neuronal network. The network is composed of coupled…

We study the emergence of the traveling chimera state in a two-dimensional network of Hindmarsh-Rose burst neurons with the mutual presence of local and non-local couplings. We show that in the unique presence of the non-local chemical…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-07-14 Gael R. Simo , Patrick Louodop , Dibakar Ghosh , Thierry Njougou , Robert Tchitnga , Hilda A. Cerdeira

Chimera states, namely complex spatiotemporal patterns that consist of coexisting domains of spatially coherent and incoherent dynamics, are investigated in a network of coupled identical oscillators. These intriguing spatiotemporal…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-05-29 Sarbendu Rakshit , Bidesh K. Bera , Matjaz Perc , Dibakar Ghosh

Chimera state is a recently discovered dynamical phenomenon in arrays of nonlocally coupled oscillators, that displays a self-organized spatial pattern of co-existing coherence and incoherence. We discuss the appearance of the chimera…

Symmetry breaking spatial patterns, referred to as chimera states, have recently been catapulted into the limelight due to their coexisting coherent and incoherent hybrid dynamics. Here, we present a method to engineer a chimera state by…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-15 Saptarshi Ghosh , Sarika Jalan

A prominent type of collective dynamics in networks of coupled oscillators is the coexistence of coherently and incoherently oscillating domains, known as chimera states. Chimera states exhibit various macroscopic dynamics with different…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-17 Seungjae Lee , Katharina Krischer

The chimera state with co-existing coherent-incoherent dynamics has recently attracted a lot of attention due to its wide applicability. We investigate non-locally coupled identical chaotic maps with delayed interactions in the multiplex…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-04-19 Saptarshi Ghosh , Anil Kumar , Anna Zakharova , Sarika Jalan